blare
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In a fire, any person expects to hear the piercing blare of a smoke alarm, yet not a single detector sounded that night.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Guy Berman, a 28-year-old Israeli student, waited out the blare of air-raid sirens before boarding a recent flight to Cyprus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
All Norma Tactacon can do is pray as the sirens blare.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
A severity descriptor on that alert sent it to weather radios and the nation’s Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which blasts weather warnings to cellphones to blare an alarm.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
Inside the car, the driver hears a steady blare at a fixed pitch.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
A siren blares and a disembodied voice counts down: "Three, two, one".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Cumbia music -- Maradona's favorite genre -- blares from speakers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
“This story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear,” blares a propaganda loudspeaker, one of the novel’s narrators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
David Bowie’s “Nite Flights,” a Walker Brothers song featured on the late legend’s 1993 album “Black Tie White Noise,” blares from the speakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
I pause and rewind to the beginning, turning the iPad to myself The intro blares out again, a mix of drumming and a man’s deep voice saying something in Arabic.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
It blared what it tried to conceal—that the more we saw of him, the worse he would look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
And as Bhangra beats blared out, fans erupted with cheers while Dosanjh launched into his biggest hits, from G.O.A.T. to Lover.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
During a recent Pokémon card auction, electronic dance music blared as a fast-talking host flashed a card at the camera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
As Pope Leo arrived, rhythmic music blared from loudspeakers with inmates breaking into song and dance under the stern gaze of prison officers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
The radio blared, filling the back of the car with the sound of soft jazz.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
At the funeral service on Wednesday, patriotic songs blaring, the city's deputy mayor Nguyen Manh Cuong said authorities "will not overlook any opportunity or method to continue the journey of searching for the fallen comrades".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
"We were shooting in town, and someone drove past blaring World of Our Own out of the speakers," he tells Newsbeat.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He called blaring smartphones a descendant of 1980s boomboxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“This wasn’t come in with guns blaring and take the documents,” Hertz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Aunt Maud dancing on the front porch with Eugene Hammond to blaring music where the neighbors could see?
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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